Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
THE FASHIONS.
SOMETHING TO WEAR AND HOW
TO WEAR 1T.
Oddities in Millinery-General
Notes of the Season.


White watered silk dresses, cut in cling
ing princesse style and frequently laced
down the back, are fashionable gowns for
bridesmaids wear. White Bengalese with
panels and vest of white satin, striped with
white velvet, with hat and plumes to cor-
respond, is another popular costume for a
group of bridesmaids. A less expensive
toilet, also appropriate for wedding occa-
sions, is one of plain white faille, with
very long drapery of white lace sewed to
the edge OF an intricately arranged but
very short oyerdress made of the silk.
The lace ON one side is carried far back,
and forms a graceful .jaboted half of the
back drapery. The sleeves to the bodice
are elbow length, and the front is cut in
zouave fashion over waistcoat of lace,
fastened with small Rhinestone buttons,
with belt-clasp at the waist of silver in
filigree set with the same stones. \ bridal
robe most queenly in effect and sent to
America by special order, is of white vel
vet en- train. The tablier and vest are
superbly embroidered in roses, buds and
foliage. The work is executed in pure
white silk alone, but this work is then
completely covered by dense network of
pearls milk-white beads, cut crystals, and
white cut jet pendants. Large seed pearls
form the flower petals and buds, and the
grasses and foliage are formed of opa les
cent pearls. The whole front of the dress
forms a wondrous and artistic piece of col
orless shading from dead white to creamy
pearl, most beautiful to see.
The latest in the way of millinery Cd
dities is bonnet of "pinked" leather.
much resembling those of last year, made
of embroidered kid or chamois skin. The
new hat covers might hail from the sad
dlers' shops, but that they are most of
them decorated with pompons, feathers
and the like. The color of the leather is
terra Gotta. A few Of the bonnets brought
from over the sea by returned soiourners
In Paris the past season are appropriately
trimmed with delicately pinked lace in
various designs, and the only charm about
these is that which consistency imparts.
Leather lace will certainly not meet with
the favor that tlcelle or pack-thread lace
did. 1t Is neither as coarse or as unpli-
able, however, as one might imagine, and
it has been used abroad combined with
plush, lace or velvet for trimming fancy
articles and also for dress garnitures. A
leather bonnet, en- suite with costume of
terra Gotta, braided in black and draped
with absinthe green cloth, had the brim
covered or matched with alternate rows
of terra Gotta, black and green leather, laid
one above another, their pink edges lap
ping above the points of each band.
For evening wear at home are pretty
Henrietta cloths in light shades, the text
ure as soft as silk and beautifully fine.
There is great variety in the formation of
the dainty gowns made of these fabrics,
some being finished in simple tailor fash
ion, with plain skirt, braided across the
| front, and a glove-ftting bodice-its only
ornament being a braid collar and vest.
Others have beaded epaulets and collar.
Imported toilets in colored Henrietta cloth
show skirts of striped velvet, made per-
fectly plain. Above this is long French
polonaise of the cloth, shaped to perfec-
ton, and elegantly draped, the jaboted
arrangement at each side in the back
showing glimpses of the striped velvet with
which it is faced. Golden-brown terra
Gotta or moss-green velvet stripes are more
used than any other color. MORE Fran
caise skirts are also seen with these toilets,
and in this case the back of the Princesse
polonaise is finished with an immense
Louis Quinze sash drapery of wide MORE
ribbon four and a quarter yards long, and
tied in long loops and ends which cover
the entire back Of the skirt
During the present season pelerines Of
fur, plush or velvet are sufficiently warm
for the promenade, over walking-dresses of
cloth. All the newest of these, worn by
the best-dressed women, fit as snug as pos
sible, and are devoid of the high or even
slightly fulled shoulder, effects which are
wholly out of date. Some of the new pele-
rlnes have long panel fronts, a style certain
to obtain fashionable favor in many yarie-
ties Of the seasons visites and other short
wraps, the style proving becoming to many
figures for which the plain round cape is
unsuitable
The new plaids bear but little resem-
blance to the Scotch plaids of other sea-
sons, many of these being only fine lines of
plush or velvet, which cross each other at
different angles, and often are mixed with
a slender gold thread. When the classic
Scotch plaids are seen IN wooden stuffs the
colors are closely blended and indistinct
and the plaided fabric is used for the skirt
ana walstcoat, the upper skirt and bodice
being of plain material. The bottoms of
many of the plaid skirts are trimmed
with wide band of Persian lambskin, or
Astrakhan, set on straight.
The market is now heavily stocked with
peilsses, ulsters, surtouts, English long
coats, Russian mantles, Marquise jackets
vlsltes, redlngotes closed and open up the
back, French camisards, fur-lined circulars.
covered with Gobelin-blue, dove-gray,
dark green and other colored broadcloths,
and banded with fur, and an endless va
rlety OF practical and fancy wraps suitable
for nearly every occasion.
The invoice of French and India cash
meres is uncommonly large this season,
the range including patterns in deep rich
winter tones, i'll monochrome, or hand
somely figured in contrasting colors. some
OF the extra fine goods which come in
boxes are as silky of texture as Henrietta
cloth, and have several yards of combina-
tlon material in brilliant Oriental designs,
and also show rich braided effects in Sou
tache, and patterns in arabesque that re-
semble costly ornamentation in applique
work. The Oriental patterns are mostly
used Tor elaborate house robes and tea
gowns.
Upon chic and charming French dresses
designed for young ladies' wear are half
walstcoats of striped velvet, starting from
the collar and fitting smoothly in the
opening of cutaway Jacket or nattv
basque bodice; the edges of this jaunty
coat finished with revers of plain velvet.
lined with satin and decorated half their
graduated length with large buttons of
hammered bronze or silver.
Dark Russia green, terracotta and golden
brown appear to be the prevailing colors
just now for promenade costumes. Broad
cloth is fabric par excellence for these
suits, and in most cases there is a coat to
match, stylishly braided and bordered with
narrow band of silk Astrakhan.
Handsomely colored arabesque leaf de-
signs, flowers and fruits, herafdric figures
and geometrical patterns are now exhibited
IN new dress and coat garnitures of silk
cord, flat gimp, beading, fine GALLONS, and
metallic cords. These trimmings are dis
played on the fronts of waistcoats, the
front and back of bodices the edges of
panels and the entire fronts of the skirt, to
the edge of the tunic draperv.